"US Army has their first Transformer." Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Nov 2017 2:51 p.m. PST |
"The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is experimenting with a hybrid, unmanned, aerial vehicle that transforms in flight and gives soldiers an advantage on the battlefield of the future. Weighing in at just over half a pound, this UAV tilts its rotors to go from hovering like a helicopter to speeding along like a sleek airplane. The design has many efficiencies, but also provides many challenges to its creator, Dr. Steve Nogar, a post-doctoral researcher with the lab's Vehicle Technology Directorate. "In an aircraft, weight is everything," Nogar said. "There are a lot of vehicles out there where designers take a quad-rotor and staple it to a fixed-wing aircraft. It may have extra propellers and actuators and it's not very efficient. You have a lot of wasted weight…"
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| Pythagoras | 30 Nov 2017 8:19 p.m. PST |
…More than meets the eye…. |
| Lion in the Stars | 30 Nov 2017 8:31 p.m. PST |
It's called a Tilt-rotor. Marines have been flying one for a decade. |
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goes beyond the straight line.